In many parts of the world, journalists who report acts of environmental destruction risk threats, violence and even murder. These crimes, which frequently target Indigenous reporters, often go unpunished.
Environmental journalists in Europe also face intimidation and harassment, said RSF spokesperson Christoph Dreyer, pointing to cases connected to the destruction of the Hambach Forest in northwestern Germany or unsustainable agriculture practices in Brittany, France. But most of these attacks, more than 65%, are recorded in Asia and the Americas.
read more at: Environmental justice reporters face deadly threats, intimidation | Environment| All topics from climate change to conservation | DW | 13.11.2020
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11/15/20
7/4/19
Poland's Judicial Reform: Ugly face of Polish judicial reforms laid bare - by Andrew Rettman
The Polish government is punishing judges who oppose its
controversial reforms with disciplinary action and smear campaigns,
Amnesty International has said.
It is also attacking prosecutors who do not toe the line, the London-based NGO added in a report out on Thursday (4 July).
And its assault on rule of law is creating a climate in which violence against left-wing activists is going unpunished, the NGO warned.
Read more: Ugly face of Polish judicial reforms laid bare
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It is also attacking prosecutors who do not toe the line, the London-based NGO added in a report out on Thursday (4 July).
And its assault on rule of law is creating a climate in which violence against left-wing activists is going unpunished, the NGO warned.
Read more: Ugly face of Polish judicial reforms laid bare
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12/8/18
The Liberal Delusion - by Marc Saxer
There’s this prevalent idea that we have
to take a firm stand against right-wing populism. Yet all the
anti-populist hashtags, public un-invites, and goodwill gigs of recent
years have done nothing to halt its rise.
Clearly, we need a more
effective strategy, and the path to finding it begins by asking a simple
question: whose values are actually being defended here?
For
as long as it is part of cultural class warfare, the fight against the
far right will never be won. The frontline runs between middle-class
groupings, which is why – even in these times of extreme inequality –
the debate focusses on questions of morals and identity, not wealth
distribution.
For much of
recorded human history, questions about who we are and where we are
going have been the domain of priests and philosophers. Today, however,
it is academics and creatives who are providing answers.
Read more: The Liberal Delusion • Social Europe
7/9/16
USA: In Dallas, yet another shooting that won't move the needle on gun control - by Lucia Graves
Less than a month after the tragedy in Orlando, a familiar cycle is setting in.
On Wednesday, Americans went to bed thinking about one shooting. On Thursday morning, we woke up to another, watching an innocent victim die on a video taken by his girlfriend. On Thursday night, we fell asleep to the horrors of a third.
Such events used to feel like an aberration. And while the killing of blameless cops reporting for duty at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas on Thursday night is a new, heinous twist, the outcome – the gunning down of innocents – has become the status quo.
The trouble is, ending America’s scourge of mass shootings and the deep-seated bias in police killings will require many things that our country is not good at. It will require persistence and cooperation, empathy and bipartisanship. It will require policy reform and, specifically, gun control. It will require us to walk a line between numb detachment and murderous rage.
So far, we haven’t found the line.
President Obama sure tries. Overseas for a Nato summit in Warsaw on Thursday, he had just given extended remarks on the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, when the ambush-style attack in Dallas forced him to take up the topic of gun violence yet again.
He proceeded to say the obvious things that somehow, sadly, still need to be said, that “there is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks or any violence against law enforcement”, and that their deaths are a reminder of the sacrifices they make for our safety.
And then he said the same thing he’s been saying since he took office seven years ago, that easy access to powerful weapons is a big part of the problem. He’s tried just about everything on that front: soaring speeches, executive actions, congressional entreaties, even leading a black congregation in a soulful rendition of Amazing Grace.
But nothing’s worked. Washington hasn’t budged. If anything, Republicans have dug in their heels.
House Democrats’ sit-in for a vote on gun control last month was dismissed by their Republican counterparts as a “publicity stunt” and “not becoming US Congress”.
And this week Republican leadership put its focus on ways to punish Democrats for their actions.
Hours before the shooting in Dallas, GOP lawmakers delayed gun control votes indefinitely.
Read more: In Dallas, yet another shooting that won't move the needle on gun control | Lucia Graves | Opinion | The Guardian
On Wednesday, Americans went to bed thinking about one shooting. On Thursday morning, we woke up to another, watching an innocent victim die on a video taken by his girlfriend. On Thursday night, we fell asleep to the horrors of a third.
Such events used to feel like an aberration. And while the killing of blameless cops reporting for duty at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas on Thursday night is a new, heinous twist, the outcome – the gunning down of innocents – has become the status quo.
The trouble is, ending America’s scourge of mass shootings and the deep-seated bias in police killings will require many things that our country is not good at. It will require persistence and cooperation, empathy and bipartisanship. It will require policy reform and, specifically, gun control. It will require us to walk a line between numb detachment and murderous rage.
So far, we haven’t found the line.
President Obama sure tries. Overseas for a Nato summit in Warsaw on Thursday, he had just given extended remarks on the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, when the ambush-style attack in Dallas forced him to take up the topic of gun violence yet again.
He proceeded to say the obvious things that somehow, sadly, still need to be said, that “there is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks or any violence against law enforcement”, and that their deaths are a reminder of the sacrifices they make for our safety.
And then he said the same thing he’s been saying since he took office seven years ago, that easy access to powerful weapons is a big part of the problem. He’s tried just about everything on that front: soaring speeches, executive actions, congressional entreaties, even leading a black congregation in a soulful rendition of Amazing Grace.
But nothing’s worked. Washington hasn’t budged. If anything, Republicans have dug in their heels.
House Democrats’ sit-in for a vote on gun control last month was dismissed by their Republican counterparts as a “publicity stunt” and “not becoming US Congress”.
And this week Republican leadership put its focus on ways to punish Democrats for their actions.
Hours before the shooting in Dallas, GOP lawmakers delayed gun control votes indefinitely.
Read more: In Dallas, yet another shooting that won't move the needle on gun control | Lucia Graves | Opinion | The Guardian
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